The highly anticipated Georgia versus Clemson series is in serious jeopardy.

The ACC has already announced that it will move to a nine-game conference schedule once Pitt and Syracuse become participating members of the ACC. That means nonconference games are a premium; especially nonconference home games.

Clemson and Georgia are separated by only 80 miles, which is why there's interest in the two teams playing each other. (AP Photo)

Clemson would like to continue its intrastate game against South Carolina of the SEC. That makes it hard to keep Georgia on the schedule in 2013 and 2014. Pitt athletic director Steve Pederson said last week that he doesn’t expect the Big East to block his program’s move to the ACC in 2013.

“Terry Don and I, we’re just in the discussion stage right now,” McGarity told the Ledger-Enquirer of Columbus, Ga. “I’m just trying to get educated basically on when the ACC will go to nine games and how does that affect our series…As you look down the road, is it happening in ’13, is it happening in ’14, because if and when it happens, we need to be able to fill a spot.

“Clemson may say, ‘Hey we want to continue to play,’ which will be fine with us.”

The SEC’s scheduling format beyond next season is in flux as well. Georgia would like to maintain traditional cross-division rivalries, like the Auburn game. The SEC hasn’t determined whether it will have an eight-game or nine-game league schedule.

“It’s one game that Georgia fans were looking forward to, so I think the rivalry being renewed every now and then is something everybody was looking forward to,” McGarity told the Ledger-Enquirer. “We just have to wait and see what Clemson can do.”